Campsite check-in (Barton Cove Campground)

Event Administration Meeting

Registration, Continental Breakfast (Coffee, fruit, juice, donuts, bagels), Vendor Displays

Welcome / Opening Remarks from Galka, MacQueen, France plus Northfield

GPS Presentation: The Steve's (Devine and Kiel)

Refresher Skills Stations: All participants are required to have their classification skills signed off by two independent queues per area of instructor certification.

Avalanche:

• Transceivers/beacon practice (both single and multiple "burials" outside plus pinpointing station indoors), first demonstrate competence with your own unit, then after that we will have all current models on the market for you to demo
• ICS for organized avalanche group rescue

MTR:

• Ropework: Knots and hitches, Z drags and other mechanical advantage raising/lowering systems
• GPS Exercise (building on the Steves' indoor presentation)

Nordic:

• Emergency sled construction (indoors) - tarp-based, Brooks Range, and improvised (with mountaineering gear)
• Emergency shelter construction (nearby woods)

Lunch (Make-your-own sandwiches, cole slaw, potato salad). (Feel free to keep eating into the start of the next session, especially those who are not avalanche instructors, but try to keep disruptions for session participants to a minimum.)

Course Delivery Issues, in particular:

Avalanche:

• Revised Avalanche Instructor Manual ("AIM") and new course classifications
• March 2009 Level 2 (Whiteface)

MTR:

• ?

Nordic:

• Nordic Master program

All:

• Use of Google Groups to enhance course registration, preparation, and delivery.

Break with light refreshments.

"What I Did on My Summer Vacation" - Chuck Boyd on K2.

Placeholder presentations (if no other offers) based on upcoming publications in the American Avalanche Association's The Avalanche Review by Jonathan Shefftz:

• "Springtime Avalanches Don't Happen Here - Or Do They? A Nearly Deadly Avalanche in New Hampshire's Presidential Range"
• "A Brief Mathematical Note On: Multiple-Burial Likelihood"
• "A Brief Mathematical Note On: Snowmobiler Avalanche Deaths"

ICS discussion for Sunday Exercise

Q/A Discussion and General

New Instructor Meeting w/Mentors and I/Ts - Q/A Galka, MacQueen, France

Meeting for Instructor Trainers

• Instructor Activity Reports/IT assignments
• Status of Instructors being mentored
• This season's pending recertification - Active/Dormant Instructors
• Program quality issues
• Scholarships and instructor recruitment

Meeting for Division Supervisors and Regional Advisors

• Appointment of Regional Advisors Process
• Program Delivery to Regions/Program Needs for upcoming season
• Planned course schedule
• Available IORs, instructors and resources

Dinner and Campfire

Beacon Competition (optional) with prizes for top three from sponsor donation pool.

Opening Comments Q & A. Continental breakfast (Coffee, fruit, juice, donuts, bagels)

Course Evaluation Distribution. Raffle and Beacon Competition prizes

Mark Supernor: President, Central Massachusetts Search and Rescue Team

Full outside SAR exercise (using Northfield radios), with indoor roles available. If weather is truly miserable, then the bulk of the exercise will shift to an indoor simulation.

Debrief

Closing Remarks and Adjournment. Strike camp.

IT Meeting and Review of Course Evaluations.